How do kids get picked

[Anonymous]

Tryouts are one thing, but coaches will be scouting players beforehand at AAU tournaments.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It isn't just height as a 9th grader, it is your potential for height. If you and your spouse are really tall then hang around those tryouts. If you are short then stay away.

You need to look to make a list- see how many seniors graduated last year, how many were juniors last year and how many were sophomore and freshman. Sometimes it is really just luck of the draw. You can have one kid tryout as a freshman and the year before they had a ton of seniors graduate. So then everyone moves up and there are more openings. If you have a tiny graduating class then there is a bottleneck and not many spaces open up.

Not op, what are the minimum pitential heights good for basketball player?

[Anonymous]

Height, experience, ball handling, dribbling, passing, shooting, teamwork, game sense, coachability.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Height, experience, ball handling, dribbling, passing, shooting, teamwork, game sense, coachability.

This. They are exceptions, but I am aware of a small number HS basketball players with excellent ball handling who made the HS team - despite being shorter, roughly 5’ 6”. They did not make a Div 1 college team, but they did later coach HS basketball.

[Anonymous]

I will give you a serious answer. At competitive high schools, public and private, tryouts are a formality. This is sometimes true even at smaller schools.

Basketball has a small roster. There won’t be many on the team. They often unofficially know who they are taking before tryouts. These can include returning players, players they know from club teams or kids they saw in off season “optional” workouts. There are often many times more kids at tryouts than they have spots on a HS team. Politics can also matter greatly.

You are not local here so this might not be true at your school. If basketball somehow isn’t popular and maybe not a lot of kids try out, then they will look at skill, atheism and height.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I will give you a serious answer. At competitive high schools, public and private, tryouts are a formality. This is sometimes true even at smaller schools.

Basketball has a small roster. There won’t be many on the team. They often unofficially know who they are taking before tryouts. These can include returning players, players they know from club teams or kids they saw in off season “optional” workouts. There are often many times more kids at tryouts than they have spots on a HS team. Politics can also matter greatly.

You are not local here so this might not be true at your school. If basketball somehow isn’t popular and maybe not a lot of kids try out, then they will look at skill, atheism and height.

This is a good point. At our school over 150 kids show up to tryouts. The coach already has a good idea of who he is taking.

[Anonymous]

Biggest tip for tryouts- go every preseason training offered. That's where decisions will be made of they haven't been made already from scouting AAU games and such.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Height, experience, ball handling, dribbling, passing, shooting, teamwork, game sense, coachability.

This. They are exceptions, but I am aware of a small number HS basketball players with excellent ball handling who made the HS team - despite being shorter, roughly 5’ 6”. They did not make a Div 1 college team, but they did later coach HS basketball.

These players are almost all point guards, which is the shortest player on the court. However, the point guard is typically the best ball handler and has a huge amount of basketball IQ (elite point guards are running the offense on the floor), so it's usually a kid who has been playing for a very long time under good coaches (which is also why point guards often end up coaching). Tons of kids try out for PG every year and it's probably the most competitive position.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Height, experience, ball handling, dribbling, passing, shooting, teamwork, game sense, coachability.

This. They are exceptions, but I am aware of a small number HS basketball players with excellent ball handling who made the HS team - despite being shorter, roughly 5’ 6”. They did not make a Div 1 college team, but they did later coach HS basketball.

These players are almost all point guards, which is the shortest player on the court. However, the point guard is typically the best ball handler and has a huge amount of basketball IQ (elite point guards are running the offense on the floor), so it's usually a kid who has been playing for a very long time under good coaches (which is also why point guards often end up coaching). Tons of kids try out for PG every year and it's probably the most competitive position.

There are so many average height athletic males who want to play basketball. So these average height males have to stand out so much and agreed these are the kids who have been playing forever and very high skill and understanding of the game. Can get away with being maybe 5-9 to 5-11 if on a competitive high school basketball team at PG.

OP really depends on your kids height.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Biggest tip for tryouts- go every preseason training offered. That's where decisions will be made of they haven't been made already from scouting AAU games and such.

+1. Go to summer and fall training if offered. That’s where coaches are getting the idea of how kids play. It’s too hard to make decisions at tryouts when there are 50+ kids there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I will give you a serious answer. At competitive high schools, public and private, tryouts are a formality. This is sometimes true even at smaller schools.

Basketball has a small roster. There won’t be many on the team. They often unofficially know who they are taking before tryouts. These can include returning players, players they know from club teams or kids they saw in off season “optional” workouts. There are often many times more kids at tryouts than they have spots on a HS team. Politics can also matter greatly.

You are not local here so this might not be true at your school. If basketball somehow isn’t popular and maybe not a lot of kids try out, then they will look at skill, atheism and height.

This is a good point. At our school over 150 kids show up to tryouts. The coach already has a good idea of who he is taking.

Same. Our school system filters out in 7th grade. Tryouts are just a formality. The coach takes the previous year’s 6th grade A travel team, plus two other practice players, and that’s the roster. Then the 8th grade coach chooses the same kids the following year. It never varies, unless a superstar moves into the district. Essentially, the high school team is chosen in sixth grade. Kids who weren’t on the travel teams no longer bother trying out and either quit or do rec.

[Anonymous]

They play AAU and/or travel basketball. If your kid played rec only, it will not happen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They play AAU and/or travel basketball. If your kid played rec only, it will not happen.

But they can and should still play rec. Many play rec through high school.

[Anonymous]

Skill and height.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At a good sports school, boys' basketball will usually, statistically, the toughest sport to get on the varsity roster for based on the number of kids who want to play vs. the number of roster spots--usually 12 to 15, depending on where you are (we're not even talking about being one of the starting 5 here).

That's also true in college. Statistically, the number of kids who play in high school vs the number of D1 spots (NCAA rules make it so each college can only have 15 players total) makes it the hardest sport to play in D1.

Men’s tennis is the hardest